Oriol Artigas "La Bestia" Blanco 2022 (1.5L)

Catalonia (ES)

Old-vine Pansa Blanca grown from schist soils at 120 msl just north of Barcelona city limits. Hand-harvested fruit, 12 day skin maceration, native yeast fermentation and raised oxidatively on lees for 8 months. 

Broad & Creamy / Citrus Peel, Pear / Saline, herbal, mineral

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La Bèstia is 100% Pansa Blanca (local clone of Xarel-lo) from organically-farmed 80+yo vines in white granitic sand. The grapes are destemmed and fermented on skins in a mixture of stainless steel and neutral oak (80/20) then pressed to finish and rest in stainless steel tank. The philosophy of Oriol Artigas, a native to the area and a trained enologist, is to “cultivate the vineyards in the most natural and least interventionist way possible, to allow the grapes to express in the most intense way the landscape from which they come”... resulting in some of the most exciting Vins Catalans being made today! Bottled w/o fining, filtration, or sulfur  additions.